The publishing world is still in a move primarily caused by changing consumer behavior. This article introduces latest trends and new business models. Current stats are showing a trend towards the consumption of pure digital content. In the US depending on the industry sectors a share of 34% (publishing) up to 47% (entertainment) now access ...

The latest study by PEW Internet states that social media use is still rising. On average now 65% of American adults are using social media. Whereas the use is rising at all the graphs of growth for particular groups do show slight kinks. But most of these kinks are just temporarily. The ongoing growth of ...

Pinterest and ecommerce is a story of its own, but how do people interact with the platform and who are its users? This is just a pointer to a comprehensive infographic about Pinterest and ecommerce: Pinfographic. FOLDEN.INFO Directory Sources: Social Media

Studies on the age groups of social networks are evaluated by the market researchers of eMarketer. The basis are studies of nuvoodoo and globalwebindex. The studies related to users in the US as well include the reach of the particular social networks. As might be expected, especially the younger population groups and teenagers are showing ...

The W3C has launched a further initiative regarding the interoperability of social web applications. To get further information visit the announcement of the launch: W3C Launches Push for Social Web Application Interoperability. FOLDEN.INFO Directory Sources: Internet Standards – Social Media Information

The social sharing service Buffer, which enables time shifted sharing, has published a report about optimizing the sharing frequency. The idea of sharing frequency as well as time shifted sharing takes into consideration the sensibility of users regarding overwhelming messaging and the highest attention of users during the day and week. Buffer has tested various ...

Twitter itself has surveyed the success factors of retweets, tweets recommended and shared by others. To get reliable data the tweets of verified users have been examined by watching the different sharing behavior in the case of varying means included within a tweet. These means are photos and videos, hashtags, links and the mention of ...